The End of the Game
by Beard, Peter
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Hamlyn, 1965. 256, col + b/w photos. . HB. 4to, orig. green cloth. Vg in d/w. Small blind ownership stamp of Col. Ray Nightingale to endpaper, with his numerous neat, marginal ink annotations to text. Nightingale (1921-200) was born in Northern Rhodesia, served in the Kenya Regiment, King's African Rifles, and in the 1970s he was attached to the Sultan of Oman's Army. The book is annotated by Nightingale with references of considerable interest, enlarging upon Beards text, often with first-hand accounts of animals, people and places discussed in this work.. First UK edition. Text and photographs by Peter Beard. This book is a chronicle in words and pictures of the gradual and remorseless destruction of the central symbol of Africa's life - the animal. In a series of unique photographs the elephants, giraffes, hippopotami, cheetahs, water buck, zebras, and lions of Africa are shown living in a state of natural grace and dying with majestic courage..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S47559
- Title
- The End of the Game
- Author
- Beard, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hamlyn
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- ABA03-2022; Africa; Big Game Hunting
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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